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Huang He (Chinese: 黃河; pinyin: Huáng Hé; formerly transliterated in Wades-Giles as Hwang-ho), literally the Yellow River, is at 5,463 km the second longest river in China, only surpassed by the Chang Jiang.

It originates from the Yekuzonglie Basin at an elevation of 4,500m in the northern slope of the Bayankera Mountains in the Qingzuang Plateau.

The River Medway in England flows from Turners Hill, in West Sussex, through Tonbridge, Maidstone and Rochester in Kent, to the River Thames. From 1746 the limit of navigation was Tonbridge, but the channel was improved to Leigh in 1828. Small craft such as canoes can sometimes travel as far as Penshurst. The lowest (tidal) lock, opened in 1792, is at Allington. The stretch from Leigh to Allington is known as the Medway Navigation, and is 19 miles (31 km) long. The mouth of the river is defined by Garrison Point, between the Isle of Sheppey and the Isle of Grain.

The Nile in Africa, is one of the two longest rivers on Earth. Whether the Nile is longer than South America's Amazon still remains the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers vary over time (especially in plains, where rivers often change course), and, second, the point from which the length of a river is measured is not always agreed upon.

The Hudson River, originally called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. It is named for Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Netherlands, who explored it in 1609, though the first European to see it was the Italian Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524 whose expedition was financed by the citizens of Lyon, France, under the auspices of King Francois I. Early European settlement of the area clustered around the river.